What makes Apple amazing
I have a story to tell. It involves a wedding, my friend and his new wife’s first dance, and my iPhone.
My friend Chris Gray got married on April 2 to the lovely Laci Kimbell. It was an outdoor wedding, which comes with the standard set of outdoor-event worries: Will it rain? Will it be cloudy? Too hot, too cold? What about traffic sounds? That sort of stuff. It went off without a hitch. The wind picked up right when they were supposed to light the unity candles (two flames become one thing), but it was a laugh, and they just had a good time. Splendid was the word of the day, no worries.
So we finish up with the ceremony and the wedding party is taking pictures and then someone from indoors (the wedding planner?) informs us that the DJ has a problem. And the problem is, well, he’s an idiot. But the reason he’s an idiot is that the song Chris and Laci are supposed to have their first dance to “has a virus and won’t play.” Uh huh. And he doesn’t have a back up.
I could see it on their faces. Chris and Laci looking at each other like, “We do an outdoor wedding with no problem, and the DJ can’t play a song?” Something always goes awry at weddings. Has to. Before they even fret, I pipe up and say, “Okay, so? I have an iPhone.” I pop on the iTunes Store, download Billy Joel’s “She’s Got a Way,” and then I head off to let the DJ know to use my iPhone to play the song to their first dance.
I had to share the story because in the moment that I said, “I have an iPhone,” I realized that Apple had just saved the wedding. The iTunes Store, the iPhone, the iPod app, Airplane mode so a call wouldn’t interrupt their first dance—all Apple. Everything went without a hitch, as if I was the special guest DJ hosting the couple’s first dance. It was amazing.
We live in the future, people—and Apple is leading the way.
